Research Seminar Series (TIME CHANGE): The newly created Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA)

Date/Time:	May 2, 2008 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Venue:	The Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, Pepco Room [1105]
Featured Speaker:	Dr Lisa Porter, Director of Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA)
Presenation Materials:	IARPA Presentation slides [.pdf]

You are invited to join Lisa Porter, director of IARPA, a new cutting-edge basic research agency for the intelligence community for a discussion of agency program directions and priorities. IARPA is charged with developing groundbreaking technologies for the U.S. intelligence community and consolidates the National Security Agency's Disruptive Technology Office; the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's National Technology Alliance; and the Central Intelligence Agency's Intelligence Technology Innovation Center.

Prior to this position, Lisa Porter was the Associate Administrator for Aeronautics Research at NASA and a senior scientist in the Advanced Technology Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Lisa has a bachelor's degree in nuclear engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and holds a doctorate in applied physics from Stanford University.

Space is limited. Please RSVP to vpr@umd.edu by April 25, 2008.

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